Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 11
“A lady?” said Tootles, and fell a-trembling.
Who acts: lady · What happens: say, fall · To what, where: Tootles, trembling · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lady | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Tootles | tootle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 trembling | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 a | punct |
| 13 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a lady | Tootles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent tootle=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a lady not said here | a trembling | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient trembling=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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